Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic. In Clinton, Iowa, impetuous Ezra Adams explained to a judge that irritation at a soap opera had prompted him to 1) ram his fist through the family radio, 2) hack the set to matchwood with a hammer, 3) hurl eggs at random around the room...
...critic said that Aleksandrov's "weakness for abstract and vague formulations brings him to the point where correct Marxist theses are drowning in them, and the revolutionary content of Marxism is sometimes replaced by abstract discussions...
...doesn't approve of radio. Longtime writer-director-co-star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy about the program they won't even get up to answer the phone...
...this score, one of Lewis' severest critics insists that his works of scholarship, The Allegory of Love (on Spenser), and A Preface to Paradise Lost, are "miles ahead" of any other literary criticism in England. But Lewis' Christianity, says his critic, has brought him more money than it ever brought Joan of Arc, and a lot more publicity than she enjoyed in her lifetime. In contrast to his tight scholarly writing (says this critic), Lewis' Christian propaganda is cheap sophism: having lured his reader onto the straight highway of logic, Lewis then inveigles him down the garden...
...favorable review of one of Sherwood Anderson's early books. He also held out alone on the Book-of-the-Month Club jury for Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. But such bravado was obviously rare. For Canby is not a daring or a penetrating critic. On the other hand, by his industry, fluency, and sincere impulse to "pass on sound values to the reading public," he made a place for himself in his period. He is as competent as any prophet to observe, at the end, "we .have lived through increasing intensity and its decline into fatigue...